According to Océ, the installation uses Prisma-prepare prepress software which allows staff to touch-up and make-ready hard and soft copy documents to deliver better results to their on-campus customers. Two of the presses will feature BLM saddle booklet makers and square back binding and the third will feature online perfect binding.

A perfect binder will be added to the Croydon centre within weeks and PrinterFace software is being used to enable instant desktop access to more than 2,000 teachers, lecturers and administrators at Swinburne, as well as to keep an accurate tally of users and usage for internal billing purposes.

Gerard Brick, manager of Swinburne Press says, “An important part of the tender process was that the successful tenderer had to be able to convert our legacy files from a proprietary format, used by the previous supplier, into open architecture files that enable their use on all printers, including non-Océ ones.”

He continues, “Our workplace was tested for noise levels prior to the installation and the noise level from our previous machines was judged to be so high we were worried about health and safety issues. The contrast with the Océ equipment is remarkable; they’re so quiet it’s hard to know when they have finished printing.”

The Swinburne Press has an annual output of more than 22 million impressions, consisting largely of teaching manuals, course outlines and examination forms. Brick says the print centre’s output has been streamlined by the inline hole punches which are an essential part of manual production.

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